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BALGOVIND BABOO
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Member Since 05/07/2008
 

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Website: sites.google.com/site/bgbaboo
Location: SAMBALPUR,ORISSA,INDIA
Occupation: PROFESSOR,TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Company: UTKAL UNIVERSITY
Address: DEPT.OF SOCIOLOGY
City: BHUBANESWAR
State: ORISSA
Zip Code: 91-751004
Country: INDIA
Phone #: 91-674-2582496
Short Statement: Short Statement
As a Sociologist I have taught post-Graduate students for more than 20 years. Currently I am on leave from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar and located in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University Malaysia, Sarawak, Malaysia. I tend to believe that Sociologists/Anthropologists, like me, who do prolonged and intensive fieldwork in different social settings and also have varied experience teaching students of different socio-cultural background have not only the responsibility to tell what it(social reality) is thought to be, explain what it is but also to propagate what it would be and what it ought to be. The unpleasant truth of life is that people with power and prosperity muzzle the voice of the conscientious social scientists and sometimes the latter themselves surrender to the former. The issue of development-induced displacement is a burning one in my own state in Orissa, India. It is very rich in natural resources but one of the poorest among the major states in India. There is large disparity within the different parts of the state. Natural factors apart, man-made designs—in the garb of development—are responsible for the underdevelopment of the state. This fractured and fragmented image inspired, rather compelled, me to understand the process of social reconstruction of the oustees and affected persons of the Hirakud Dam, the longest earthen dam in the world.
Displacement Experience: Hirakud Dam, Harabhangi Dam,
Mahanadi Coal Field Limited
Talcher Super Thermal Power Project
Publications: PUBLICATION OF DR. BALGOVIND BABOO



BOOKS

1.Economic Exchanges in Rural India: A Comparative Spatio-Cultural Study in Orissa.Manak:Delhi,1992.

2.Technolgy and Social Transformation:The Case of the Hirakud Multipurpose Dam in Orissa.
Concept:Delhi,1992.

3. (Associate Editor).Contemporary Society:Childhood and the Complex Order. Manak:Delhi.1996

4. (Associate Editor).Contemporary Society:Tribal Studies,Vol.1&2.Concept:Delhi. 1997.


ARTICLES


1. 2009.”Politics of Water: The Case of the Hirakud Dam in Orissa, India”, International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol.1 (8), pp.139-34, December.

2. 2009.”Divine Communication in the Sakti Cult of Sambalpur District,Orissa”,The Eastern
Anthropologist, (Lucknow), Vol.62, No.3.pp.

3. 2002.”Dams, Displacement and Violation of Human Rights: The Case of the Hirakud Dam in Orissa”, in Katare, P.M. and B.C. Barik(eds.), Development, Deprivation and Human Rights Violation. Delhi: Rawat Publications.pp.195-209.



1.1992.`Development and Displacement:A Comparative Study of Rehabilitation of Dam Oustees in two Suburban Villages of Orissa', Man in India (Ranchi), Vol.72,No.1,pp.1-14.

2.1991( a). `State Policies and People's Response:Lessons from the Hirakud Dam in Orissa', Economic and Political Weekly,(Bombay),Vol.XXVI,No.41,pp.2373-79.

3.1991( b) .`Development and Rehabilitation : A Comparative Study of Dam Oustees in Two Tribal Villages of Orissa', Sociologus (Berlin),Vol.41,No.1,pp.16-26.

4.1991(c).`Rehabilitation of Dam Oustees : A Comparative Study of Partly Vs. Fully Submerged Villages
in Orissa', Indian Jnl. Of Social Science, (Delhi), Vol.4, No.2,pp.287-306 .

5.1991(d).`Big Dams and the Tribals:The Case of the Hirakud Dam Oustees in Orissa', Social Action,.
(Delhi),Vol.31,No3,pp.288-303.

6.1991(e).`Development and Displacement:The Case of Large Dams in India', Man and Development, (Chandigarh),Vol.13,No.4,pp.34-46.

7.1989.`On Methodology in the Sociology of Education in India', Society and Change, (Calcutta), Vol.VI,No.1,pp.53-71.

8.1988(a).The Economic History of Sambalpur District 1849-1947:An Introduction', Social Scientist, (Delhi),Nos.181-82,pp.26-34.

9.1988(b).`Impact of Mechanisation on Rural Women:The Case of Rice Husking In-dustry', in T.M.Dak (ed), Women and Work in Indian Society, Discovery Publishing House,Delhi.pp.256-64.

10.1988(c).`A Sociological Study of Peddlars of Rohtak Town', Indian Jnl.of Marketing, (Delhi), Vol.XVIII,Nos.8-10,pp.15-19

11.1987(a).`Understanding Economic Exchanges in Rural India:Towards a Frame-work', Sociological Bulletin, (Delhi),Vol.36,No.1,pp.21-53.

12.1987(b).`Economic Development in Rural Orissa:A Comparative Study of Six Villages in Sambalpur District', Jnl.of Social and Economic Studies, (Patna), N.S. Vol.4,No.3,pp.187-209.

13.1986(a).`Cognition and Structure:Examining the Exploitation of an Untouch- able Caste in Orissa', The Eastern Anthropologist, (Lucknow),Vol.39,No.3, pp.187-195.

14.1986(b).`Modernisation and Blacksmiths:A Comparative Study in a Cross-Cultural Situation in Orissa', Southern Economist, (Bangalore) ,Dec.15,pp.12-14.

15.1986(c).`Economic Exchanges in a Tribal Village', The Eastern Anthropologist, (Lucknow), Vol.66,No.2,pp.151-62.

16.1986(d).(With Anil Singla and Suresh Ahuja).`A Comparative Study of Tonga-wallas, Rickshaw Pullers and Auto Drivers in Rohtak Town', Urban India, (Delhi), Vol.16,Nos.1&2,pp.70-78.

17.1985(a).`Economic Exchanges in an Oriya Village', The Eastern Anthropologist , (Lucknow), Vol.38, No.2, pp.117-50.

18.1985(b).`Problems of Semi-Feudalism:Case Study of an Oriya Village', Social Science Probings, (Delhi),Vol.2,No.1,pp.78-101.

19.1985(c). (With Surinder Singh),`A Sociological Study of the Refugees in Rohtak Town, Gurunanak Dev Jnl. of Sociology, (Amritsar),Vol.6,No.2,pp.107-17.

20.1984.`(With Laxmi Panwar).`Maidservants : A Case Study of Haryana', Mainstream , (Delhi), Vol.23,No.1,pp.22-23.

21.1979(a).`The Naga National Movement: An Analysis', Third World Unity,(Delhi)'Nos.15 and 16-17.pp.41-51 and 57-62.

22.1979(b).`Geography of Sakti Cult in Sambalpur Disrict', Folklore , (Calcutta), Vol.20,No.9,pp.191-200.

CONSULTANCIES:


1. Rehabilitation and Resettlement of the Talcher Super Thermal Power Project:

(For IMCO,Bhubaneswar,Orissa,India).1994.

2. (with Nirmala Buch) Drought Mitigation and Management in Western Orissa.

(For HIVOS,Bangalore,India).1997.

3. Status of Women and Children in Nuapada District of Orissa

(For Lokdrusti,Khariar,Orissa,India).1999.

4. Action Plan for the Project Affected Persons of the Harbhangi Dam in Orissa
(For CPSW,Bhubaneswar,Orissa,India).2000.

5. Land Transactions and Land Alienation in Kalahandi District of Orissa

(For OPDSC,Raigada,Orissa,India).2002.

6. Tail-Enders Study and Irrigation Management in Eastern India.(For Development
Support Centre,Ahmedabad,India,with Dr.R.K.Meher)2002.
Highest Degree: Ph.D.in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University,N.Delhi, India.1983.

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